Carville On Hillary: Every Democrat I Know Says "God, I Hope She Runs" (video)

CARVILLE: Since 1944, if we would have been sitting here, Republicans have always craved order. And they've always looked for the lion tail to get behind. We've always been people that we want to fall in love. We're looking for the next argument.

This is entirely different. Every Democrat I know says, "God, I hope she runs. We don't need a primary. Let's just go to post with this thing. We don't want to fight with anybody over anything."

CARVILLE: Yeah, you've got to beat somebody. And the Republicans know that they need a primary. We don't want -- we don't want a primary. We don't want to be slugging this thing out (inaudible) you know what? We've got a pretty good demographic deck. We kind of get -- we like winning presidential elections. She's popular. Let's just go with it.

CARVILLE: I don't know what she's going to do, but I do know this: the Democrats want her to run. And I don't just mean a lot of Democrats, I mean a whole lot of Democrats, like 90% across the country. We just don't -- we just want to win, we think she is the best person and shut it down. And that's across the board.

Hillary’s chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 are tiny to nonexistent.

First, if Andrew Cuomo enters the race, which he seems certain to do, he will win the New York primary — a must for any aspiring Democratic presidential candidate.

Then, the only obstacles that could stop Mr. Cuomo from winning the nomination would be:

1) if Jerry Brown decides to run and wins the California primary. Why not? He’d only be 78 years old in 2016, roughly the same age as the Democrats’ Congressional leaders, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, with whom he’d fit in perfectly if he became president;

2) a charismatic Black candidate emerges, for example, Cory Booker of Newark, who would win the primary votes of Blacks and many White liberals, leaving Mr. Cuomo, Hillary, and Joe Biden to divide the remaining Democratic votes, which Mr. Cuomo, even with his large New York constituency, might not gain a large enough share of; and

3) a prominent Hispanic candidate emerges, for example, Mayor Villagairosa of Los Angeles, who would not only win the Hispanic vote but also be likely to compete strongly in Democratic primaries in states like California, New York, Texas, and Florida with large Hispanic populations, creating a three-way free-for-all between Andrew Cuomo, Cory Booker, and Antonio Villagairosa for the 2016 Democratic nomination, which maybe no one can win before a bloody convention fight determines the battered victor.

And Republicans are worrying about divisions in their own party?!

No wonder James Carville is so eager to promote Hillary now as a certain-to-win candidate whom no Democrat should oppose for the next four years, in order to prevent the Cuomos, Bookers, and Villagairosas from entering the fray. But Hillary is too divisive, old, and laden with baggage to fulfill that role.

I don’t think she will win. She is an old white woman and will be older in four years. Not appealing at all. I just don’t think America will want her. Maggie Thatcher she ain’t.

Of course, I don’t think Obamugabe is appealing either. How he won by a mixture of class warfare, racism, sexism, will come to roost and hurt all of us.

In the next four years it’ll hurt more than just white anglo saxon protestants.

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